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Meaning of surrender in English

surrender
verb
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/sərˈen.dər/ us
/səˈren.dɚ/

surrender verb (ACCEPT DEFEAT)

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C2 [ I ]
to stop fighting and admit defeat:
They would rather die than surrender (to the invaders).
[ I ]
If you surrender to an experience or emotion, you stop trying to prevent or control it:
I finally surrendered to temptation, and ate the last piece of chocolate.
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surrender verb (GIVE)

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to give something that is yours to someone else because you have been forced to do so or because it is necessary to do so:
The police demanded that the gang surrender their weapons.
Neither side is willing to surrender any territory/any of their claims.
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surrender
noun [ C or U ]
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/sərˈen.dər/ us
/səˈren.dɚ/
the act of stopping fighting and officially admitting defeat:
The rebels are on the point of surrender.
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(Definition of surrender from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

surrender | American Dictionary

surrender
verb
us
/səˈren·dər/

surrender verb (ACCEPT DEFEAT)

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[ I ]
to stop fighting and accept defeat:
They would rather die than surrender.

surrender verb (GIVE)

[ T ]
to give something that is yours to someone else, usually because you have been forced to do so:
U.S. Magistrate Celeste Bremer restricted Gruenwald’s travel and ordered that he surrender his passport.
surrender
noun [ C/U ]
us
/səˈren·dər/
an agreement to stop fighting and accept defeat:
[ C ] Robert E. Lee’s surrender, which ended the Civil War, was one of the most important events in American history.
(Definition of surrender from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

surrender | Business English

surrender
verb [ T ]
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/səˈrendər/ us
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to give up something or control over something:
Generally, the amount paid by the lessee to surrender the lease will be liable to capital gains tax.
Britain may be forced to surrender at least some of its voting power in the IMF.
surrender sth to sb He was granted bail, on condition that he surrender his passport to the authorities.
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to end an insurance policy early, before its original end date:
Policy-holders who need to dispose of their policies can see if they would do better to sell rather than surrender the policy.
FINANCE
to lose value:
Yesterday on the money markets the euro surrendered its earlier gains against the dollar.
surrender
noun [ C or U ]
uk
/səˈrendər/ us
the act of giving up something, or giving control of something to someone else:
The penalty for early surrender of pensions remains at 25%.
The union was forced into a surrender of some recent gains in the latest round of negotiations.
INSURANCE
the act of ending an insurance policy early, before its original end date:
You will have to pay a fee for the early surrender of your policy.
(Definition of surrender from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of surrender

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In other manors the procedure was followed with regard to all land surrenders by married men because of the widow's rights to dower or freebench.
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The government claimed that 11,536 insurgents were wounded, 220 captured and another 567 had voluntarily surrendered.
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Such successful 'taming ' of contentious movements without surrendering to their claims is certainly not a new phenomenon.
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With public squares, parks and avenues effectively surrendered to the worm, summer in the city became unbearable.
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In compromising his conscience, the king surrendered along with his regality, his trust, his honour, his very humanity.
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If he hesitated, or the action failed, he could be accused of surrendering to government pressure.
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The chosen candidate's factional leader may have, in effect, surrendered his exclusive ties to the candidate.
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As the repository of rights surrendered in common, it is everything.
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The elder never drove again and surrendered his licence.
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After that time he would either have to be surrendered or released.
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After surrendering a kidney, it might be difficult to admit that one had made a mistake.
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She was probably elderly in 1536, when she surrendered a two-acre holding to her daughter and son-in-law in return for a lifelong maintenance agreement.
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Consequently, in our exposition the details are surrendered to this goal.
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Not all surrenders of personal information are equal.
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A currency board would be the next desirable choice because seigniorage is retained, but national control of monetary policy is effectively surrendered.
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Collocations with surrender

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abject surrender
It would be an abject surrender to the threat of force.
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complete surrender
What we have instead is a complete surrender to textuality.
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total surrender
If it were to be considered closed, we would not be facing an unacceptable compromise but total surrender.
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Translations of surrender

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承認失敗, 投降, 任憑擺布，屈服…
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承认失败, 投降, 任凭摆布，屈服…
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overgive sig, opgive, aflevere…
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ge sig, kapitulera, avstå från…
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arrendersi, abbandonare, rinunciare a…
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